Dan Gilbert: How We Can Be Happier
[2:13] Author of “Stumbling On Happiness,” Daniel Gilbert explains the secret to being happier. [Video…
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Consciousness: the hard problem? – Discussion
[1:03:10] [Video and text source: The Royal Institution YouTube channel]…
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Stacy Smith: The data behind Hollywood’s sexism
[15:44] Where are all the women and girls in film? Social scientist Stacy Smith analyzes how the media underrepresents …
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Adam Alter: Digital Addiction – How Half the Developed World Got Hooked on the Internet
[5;33] It’s not your screen you’re addicted to — it’s just the conduit for your high. NYU profess…
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World Happiness Report 2017
[4:56] The World Happiness Report 2017, which ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels, was released on 20 March 2…
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Paul Bloom: Are Humans Emotional Creatures or Are We Rational?
[4:28] For once, an optimistic worldview is the one sparking controversy. Paul Bloom thinks humans are not prisoners t…
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Bruce Hood: The domesticated brain: How the social environment turned us into children
[45:53] The human brain increased in size over the course of our evolution in response to increasing social complexity…
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Bruce Hood: Mine! The Power of Ownership
[6:45] Ownership is a peculiar human preoccupation which defines who we are. Ownership controls our lives and yet, ver…
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Jonathan Haidt: What Capitalism Does to Us…And for Us
[1:40:37] Dr. Jonathan Haidt presentation for the John H. Schnatter Center for Free Enterprise at the University of Lo…
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Alex Haslam: The Psychology of Tyranny: Did Milgram Get It Wrong?
[17:49] Professor Alex Haslam’s work reviews the famous Milgram’s experiment to show how tyranny and obedience a…
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